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Mephisto of the FoS wrote: ↑Sun Jul 30, 2023 9:38 am I found a recipe for Lichnee, also known as a potion of transformation, a highly poisonous mixture that had to be imbibed as part of an evil ritual to become a lich. This looks like a good scenario as adventurers try to find what goes on behind some disappearances or murders they realise that someone is trying to create this potion.

Recipe
The following ingredients had to be mixed together in this specific order under the light of a full moon:

• 2 drops of pure distillate of arsenic
  1 drop of pure distillate of belladona
  1 quart of blood from a human infant killed by wyvern venom
  1 quart of blood from a non-human humanoid killed by a phase spider
  1 quart of blood from an individual infected with vampirism
  1 simmered intact heart from a humanoid killed by a mixture of arsenic and belladona poisoning
  7 sets of ground-up reproductive glands from giant moths killed within a tenday
  1 pint or more of fresh phase spider venom (less than a month old),
  1 pint or more of fresh wyvern venom (less than two months old).

There existed alternative recipes that disputed certain details, such as what kinds of humanoids' blood to use, how old they had to be, and whether or not they were a virgin.

In addition, the soul of a sentient creature whose blood was used in the potion had to be sacrificed to the aspiring lich's phylactery.

Some versions of the lich transformation ritual further called for the potion to be enchanted with castings of animate dead, cone of cold, feign death, permanency, and wraithform.

IanFordam wrote: ↑Sun Jul 30, 2023 5:44 pm Beware variations which conclude, And then season to taste...

Mephisto of the FoS wrote: ↑Sun Jul 30, 2023 9:38 am I found a recipe for Lichnee, also known as a potion of transformation, a highly poisonous mixture that had to be imbibed as part of an evil ritual to become a lich. This looks like a good scenario as adventurers try to find what goes on behind some disappearances or murders they realise that someone is trying to create this potion.

Recipe
The following ingredients had to be mixed together in this specific order under the light of a full moon:

• 2 drops of pure distillate of arsenic
  1 drop of pure distillate of belladona
  1 quart of blood from a human infant killed by wyvern venom
  1 quart of blood from a non-human humanoid killed by a phase spider
  1 quart of blood from an individual infected with vampirism
  1 simmered intact heart from a humanoid killed by a mixture of arsenic and belladona poisoning
  7 sets of ground-up reproductive glands from giant moths killed within a tenday
  1 pint or more of fresh phase spider venom (less than a month old),
  1 pint or more of fresh wyvern venom (less than two months old).

There existed alternative recipes that disputed certain details, such as what kinds of humanoids' blood to use, how old they had to be, and whether or not they were a virgin.

In addition, the soul of a sentient creature whose blood was used in the potion had to be sacrificed to the aspiring lich's phylactery.

Some versions of the lich transformation ritual further called for the potion to be enchanted with castings of animate dead, cone of cold, feign death, permanency, and wraithform.

Mephisto of the FoS wrote: ↑Tue May 16, 2023 12:04 am Pseudolich!

New monster, created when a wizard fails to become a lich but does not "die" in the process...
Their crumbling bodies need negative energy to survive (meaning killing peasants regularly).
I am not sure if they should have a phylactery though, maybe they are trying only to survive, thus their pathetic undead existence has nothing to do with the thirst of knowledge normal liches have.

alhoon wrote: ↑Thu Aug 10, 2023 7:19 am There is a monster like that - or more - that come to mind. Apparently they lose a lot of their memories and power and become like 5th lvl wizards or undead with a few magic powers.

Baron Von Stanton wrote: ↑Thu Aug 10, 2023 5:15 pm "Arch-Shade" or "Arch-Shadow"
https://mojobob.com/roleplay/monstrousm ... hshad.html

Mephisto of the FoS wrote: ↑Thu Aug 10, 2023 11:38 pm Interesting but still high level (18th lvl undead wizard), I was thinking something to be usead as an adversary for lower level parties. Something like a ghoul or wight that feeds on magical energy to continue its existence. Well anyway a conversion to 3e of the ach-shadow is appropriate so maybe I can create the weaker versions too.

Baron Von Stanton wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 8:11 pm"Fallen Arch-Shade"?

Mephisto of the FoS wrote: ↑Thu Aug 10, 2023 2:18 pm How are they called? I know of spectral wizards but they are created by a spell.